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The value of your data depends on how well you profile it. Today, only about 3% of data meets quality standards. That means poorly managed data is costing companies millions of dollars in wasted time, money, and untapped potential.

Today, good marketing relies on having detailed and accurate customer data. And companies, not surprisingly, are eager to collect vast troves of it. For instance, Amazon continuously tracks the behaviours of its 100 million Prime members, an example of “first party” data.

The scope is defined and product roadmap prioritised. The development team is firing on all cylinders, and the marketing is on point. Everyone from the admin assistant to the stakeholders believes in the plan. For you, as Product Manager, this is your big moment – a chance to bask in your glory.

Faster change and more disruption are putting pressure on businesses. As a result, business transformation leaders are required to constantly change business operations to activate new business models, but they simply can’t keep up.

Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed.
By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics.

After months of silence following a global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone last October, Samsung disclosed its lengthy findings as to what caused the device’s batteries to overheat and catch fire. Based on the company’s own investigation and independent scientific analysis of the issues by three consulting bodies, the overheating was caused by separate problems in batteries sourced from two different suppliers.